Sunday, January 21, 2007

The Trifecta

After Marquette knocked off Pittsburgh, my old roommate called and wondered if he could pull of the trifecta today. Arsenal had already beaten Manchester United; Marquette beat Pittsburgh in OT; and the Bears were on their way to finishing off the Saints. And it all happened unbeleivably.

I missed most of the 3rd quarter of the Bears game watching the last 5 minutes and the OT of the Marquette game. After MU lost to Syracuse a couple of weeks ago, I was very unhappy by the lack of progress, especially in attacking the zone and the free throw shooting. They have started to shoot 3 pointers better. That has allowed teams to throw different looks and have allowed the trifecta to get to the basket. For some reason, I do not know why teams do not just stand in a zone and force MU to make everything from the outside. UConn played man to man, both Louisville and West Virginia played attacking zones, and Pittsburgh was playing a mix today. As MU plays less athletic teams, I'm assuming they will see more zone and less man to man. I think the next couple of games will be just as hard as the last few were. I thought they would be 4-2 at this point, and they are 4-2, so congratulations to Coach Crean.

The Bears played well today after Reggie Bush taunted them on his way to the endzone, making it 16-14. After that play, the Saints did not score a point the rest of the game and the Bears scored 23. I did not want to see the Colts in the Super Bowl. The Patriots were a team that the Bears should have beaten in November. I'm thinking of Manning picking apart the Bears secondary on their way to a 35-17 victory at this point. I do want the Bears to win to shut up all of my friends from Northwest Indiana who are Colts fans. Move to Bloomington or Indy and become a Colts fan. That's crappy. I moved to Milwaukee and didn't become a Packer fan, thank God.

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Andre Dawson

A resounding yes for Hall of Fame. So he only gets two of the Hall of Fame measurements on Baseball Reference. If you look at who Dawson is compared most to, he is compared to 5 Hall of Famers and 5 who are not. I think he deserves to see who the Hall would match up with the Expos or the Cubs. I think it might be cool to see an individual make the Hall of Fame from a franchise that doesn't exist anymore.

As for 2007, the Cubs should and will contend. I'm very statistical and it makes sense that the Cubs should make it back in the playoffs every 4 years. There are 16 teams in the National League and with 4 teams making the playoffs, you should get in the playoffs once every four years. It just makes too much sense to me. And it would be funny to see the Cubs win it 99 years after their last championship. It would be the baseball gods laughing to say, you thought we would make it 100, but we stopped it at 99. I plan on going to many Thursday afternoon games this summer, and I only wish for a winner.